intolérant
\ɛ̃.tɔ.le.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“intolérant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,519. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,519
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui manque de tolérance, qui ne veut souffrir aucune autre opinion que la sienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intolerant · intolérant · French
intolérant · rank #44,519 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,519
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interventionn…
Nearest frequency peer: interventionnisme (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « intolérant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- intentée
intentée
55,485 corpus weight
- intersyndic…
intersyndicale
55,484 corpus weight
- interventio…
interventionnisme
55,483 corpus weight
- intolérant
intolérant
55,482 corpus weight
- invaincue
invaincue
55,480 corpus weight
- IPv6
IPv6
55,479 corpus weight
What this shows « intolérant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intolérant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɔ.le.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #44,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intolérant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around intolérant (IPA \ɛ̃.tɔ.le.ʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #44,519 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for intolérant, with forms such as "inntolérant", "inotlérant", and "intloérant". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "intolérants", "intolérance", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is intolérant, spelled I-N-T-O-L-É-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui manque de tolérance, qui ne veut souffrir aucune autre opinion que la sienne.
- 2Qui n'accepte pas de concurrent, de rival.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intolérant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Affichant non sans panache un athéisme militant, il appelle à en finir avec une certaine tolérance envers les religions monothéistes, intrinsèquement intolérantes et pétries de haine.
Quitte à devenir la cible des extrémistes postfreudiens inféodés et des fanatiques antipsychanalyse, tous si prompts à caricaturer et si intolérants.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inntolérant
- inotlérant
- intloérant
- intolerant
- intollérant
- intolréant
- intoléarnt
- intolérannt
- intolérantt
- intolératn
- intolérnat
- intolérrant
- intoélrant
- inttolérant
- itnolérant
- nitolérant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intolérant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).